Developing Effective BIM Processes is Key!
Building Information Modeling (BIM) requirements and those expected in the coming years leave project owners and AEC professionals with many questions.
Construction Project Controls & BIM Report is pleased to present a four-part educational series designed to help AEC organizations answer their questions, select BIM components and develop effective processes to achieve their long-range growth and profit goals. "BIM Strategy: Leverage Your Business for Profit and Growth" packs a punch as industry heavyweights team up to discuss the ins and outs of BIM implementation.
This BIM Strategy Kit makes a great in-house training tool: Train your entire staff! Sit around the conference room table and listen to the speakers and then discuss how it pertains to your particular company:
CD Session 1:
Implementing BIM - A Strategic Approach
Participants in this seminar will learn how to implement BIM in any organization. Whether your company is a design firm, a construction firm, a construction manager or a property owner, you can take a strategic approach that will help you maximize the value of your technology investment.
Your instructors: Michael Tardif and Deke Smith.
CD Session 2:
Negotiating BIM Scope
Before BIM can be successfully implemented on a project, it must be clear to all parties what level of BIM is expected and how the stakeholder’s roles will be affected. There is nothing more important than documenting this in the contract! Participants will learn the key issues that must be discussed in negotiating a scope of BIM services. Who will model what, when and at what level of detail will be reviewed. Also, the speakers explore the management of the process, people and data necessary to make a BIM project successful. The current state-of-the-art tools for negotiating, contracting and managing BIM projects will be presented.
Your instructors: Forrest R. Lott, Tammy McCuen and Patrick C. Suermann, Ph.D.
CD Session 3:
BIM Specifications and Information Management
This session will present a quick snapshot of BIM trends in contemporary practice and will show current examples of integrating BIM and specifications. You’ll learn how to transition to specifications in BIM models and the larger structure of integrating BIM and project information. Listen for updates on: the use of specifiers’ property sets with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers demonstration projects integrating specifications, the Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBIE) and Product Guides of the buildingSMART alliance . . . the potential for parametric indexing, search and web services using a combination of: OmniClass tables, MasterFormat and UniFormat . . . a landscape of related standards and current initiatives . . . how the sustainable design information of materials can be incorporated in a BIM model . . . the relationship of project information and materials in OmniClass and in BIM models . . . information management and the relationship of CSI standards — BIM and MasterFormat . . . and more!
Your instructors: Mark Kalin, Deborah MacPherson and John McCaffrey
CD Session 4:
Field BIM -- Using BIM to Improve Processes & Productivity
A/Es, contractors, design-builders, construction managers and owners are all realizing multiple benefits of BIM implementation to improve the construction phase. Starting with pre-construction planning and throughout the construction process, BIM tools such as laser scanning, clash detection, 4D scheduling, 5D estimating and project documentation can provide an immediate return on investment. Learn about these tools and more and how they will play an increasingly important role in the construction process and why you should be familiar with them, even if not a direct user
Your instructors: Dan Gonzales and Christian Garrido
